Gentoo 2006.1 livecd with JMicron-Support (JMB363/361/36x)

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equilibrium · Post by **equilibrium** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:15 pm

I get to the normal boot prompt, then it starts to boot.
I then lose the screen totally, then it initialises the usb devices like mouse etc. It seems to read the cdrom for a while, with the hdd churning away, but thats all it does.
From there it doesnt seem to respond to ctrl+alt+delete and I have to do a hard reset.

equilibrium · Post by **equilibrium** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:53 pm

I just got it running using vmware

Not sure if its the vga mode or something on the disk tho, as from looking in vmware the screen goes blank when the resoultion changes on normal boot. I might give the vga param a go on norm boot mode

WackyDoo · Post by **WackyDoo** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:36 pm

kernelOfTruth wrote:
small howto for AMD64 with JMicron

At the boot-prompt of the CD type in:
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 gentoo-nofb docache 
etc...

This worked for me for an ASUS P5B-VM 965G chipset board, IDE drive, and IDE cdrom. I was able to continue with the manual AMD64 gentoo installation using a spare 3com network card that I had around. I wasn't able to install grub at the end of the installation, so I used a grub boot floppy to boot the new installation.

The kernel was the latest mm-sources using the libata jmicron layer. not the IDE jmicron driver. The hard drive came up as /dev/sda. After the reboot, I could do the grub-install step.

I then downloaded the latest motherboard network drivers from realtek and fixed up the compilation errors according to the notes in http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_RTL8168, and installed the module.

Andrew

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:37 am

great, that it worked for you, WackyDoo

I've just released an amd64-version of "small gentoo", so in the future it would be much easier to install the 64-bit version of Gentoo/GNU Linux on a system with JMicron-Controller

br00ks · Post by **br00ks** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:51 am

How can I install a ia64(stage1) System with the amd64 Livecd ?
There are errors by typing "chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash"

chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': Exec format error

CPU: Intel Duo Core2
Board: Asus P5B Delux

PS:The LiveCD is great !!

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:45 am

Thanks !

Welcome to Gentoo

br00ks, try out my amd64-branch: "small gentoo" for amd64

hope it will work for you, since it's still a unofficial /testing release, in which I forgot a lot of network-drivers

however, it should work fine, since your board uses the marvell-chipset

btw, you can't chroot into an amd64-system from an x86-liveCD !

br00ks · Post by **br00ks** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:07 am

i allready tried out the amd64 livecd with the stage1-ia64-2006.1.tar.bz2 - stage.

There was no way to chroot the system :\

PS:thanks for help

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 8:29 am

oops, sorry, I must have overread

ia64

this ia64 minimal-livecd should work

why do you want a ia64 system?

I thought they were only for Intel Itanium-based machines ...

bubbl07 · Post by **bubbl07** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:28 am

br00ks wrote:i allready tried out the amd64 livecd with the stage1-ia64-2006.1.tar.bz2 - stage.

There was no way to chroot the system :\

PS:thanks for help

The IA64 architecture refers to Intel's Itanium series of processors. If you have a Core 2 Duo, you should use the amd64 stage 3 tarball to install (if you want a 64-bit environment, for a 32-bit environment use the x86 stage 3 tarball).

It's only called "amd64" because AMD came out with it first, but it's architecturally similar to Intel's EM64T -- in fact they are both just x86_64. Hope that helps!

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:03 pm

new release is out ! "small gentoo" for x86 post-r1 release (based on 2.6.18-mm1) !

if you have problems with the old (final) release, try this one

dura1198 · Post by **dura1198** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 11:35 am

Great job on the live CDs. x86 and amd64(r2) both boot for me and the added JMicron support deals with all of my drives (2 SATA, 2 IDE). This Attansic L1 PCI-E Gigabit LAN controller is killin' me. Anyone out there have a P5B-E (rev1.01G) able to get this thing to work? I apologize if this has been covered, I was unable to find much by searching the forums.

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:57 pm

Thanks, dura1198

welcome to Gentoo

don't tell me you need a liveCD with this driver included

this link on gmane might be useful,
it contains the patch, which you could try out on
* 2.6.18-mm1 or alternatively
* 2.6.18-vanilla with libata-git patch from vipernicus' 2.6.18-emission1 patches directory

dura1198 · Post by **dura1198** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:14 pm

kernelOfTruth wrote:Thanks, dura1198

don't tell me you need a liveCD with this driver included

I'm not greedy, I will try your suggestions. Thanks again.

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 6:07 pm

I will try your suggestions. Thanks again.

no prob, I hope it works for you

Strukt · Post by **Strukt** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:22 pm

This works fine! Thanks for putting down the work and getting everything working for us that insist to use unsupported hardware

I have a Asus P5B motherboard, with a jmicron controller. I managed to get everything installed, and i now sort of have a basic Gnome thingy setup. But i have one problem, i cannot access my cdrom drive after the install is made. The drive is connected to the IDE controller on my motherboard, with a physical IDE cable. In BIOS the stuff is set to IDE, not AHCI or whats called.

It seems like /dev/cdrom is not there when i boot up, so i cant mount it. and i suspect something is missing from the kernel but i cant figure out what. Any ideas ?

When i boot from the LiveCD everything works. I also tried to use that kernel, and with that the cddrive worked, so probably there are something missing from my kernel compile..

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:44 pm

Thanks !

perhaps that config file helps (2.6.19-rc2-mm2), can also be used for 2.6.19-rc2-mm1

caution! frequency switching doesn't seem to work probably, when your bios is faulty - so try it out ...

Strukt · Post by **Strukt** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:26 pm

Thanks for the config file but i cant seem to find the kernelversion you are referring to? (2.6.19-rc2-mm2)

I am currently using 2.6.18-rc4-no2

EDIT: Sorry, its me thats a bit confused here, trying with another kernel now

br00ks · Post by **br00ks** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:46 pm

New Mirror : http://www.eth0.at/gentoo
1 GBit/s / Unlimited

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:07 pm

thanks a ton, br00ks !

VampyreUK · Post by **VampyreUK** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 9:58 am

kernelOfTruth wrote: home of "small gentoo" (link)

Hi Kernel,

I am trying to install gentoo linux on my test PC and I was led here from another thread. I tried using the 2006.1 LiveCD and failed ... the GUI installer couldn't see my RAID drive, just the two SATA disks composing it.

The hardware I am using is as follows:

* Intel D865PERL motherboard (with 82801EB chipset RAID support)
* 2 x 80Gb STA 150 set up as RAID 0 array.
* 2.8GHz Intel P4 (HT, 1Mb)
* 1GB RAM
* Matrox G550 dual head display (not using dual head)

The reason I am supplying the hardware spec is because I went to your site and got rather confused over which LiveCD to downlaod so any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Kyu

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:32 pm

Hi Kyu,

sorry for confusing you guys

I've released quite a lot liveCDs in the last time (didn't expect that)

now on to your problem:

- your board has an ICH5R with S-ATA-boards, so it should be working fine with the newest releases of my liveCDs (the driver for that controller
is compiled into the kernel)

next is:

- do you want to install 32-bit or 64-bit ?

if you want to install 32-bit go for the

post-r1 release of small gentoo (x86):

if you want to install 64-bit go for the

amd64-release (r3) of small gentoo

boot the kernel with

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gentoo-irqpoll

or

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genkernel-irqpoll

depending on the CD-release

additionally

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dodmraid

might be needed

the "amd64-release (r3)" also supports

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doevms

or

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dolvms2

hope that made it somewhat clearer

kernelOfTruth

VampyreUK · Post by **VampyreUK** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:07 pm

Hi Kernel,

if you want to install 32-bit go for the post-r1 release of small gentoo (x86):

OK ... it's not an AMD board which is what I think you need to run the 64bit version don't you? I will download the other version in a moment.

As for the rest ... well it's kinda a bit muddy (I'm like a noob only not, 10 years Linux experience and know a fair bit but never really clicked with it ... figure that will only happen if I start really using it. Thanks for your help.

Kyu

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:18 pm

OK ... it's not an AMD board which is what I think you need to run the 64bit version don't you?

if you don't have too old pentium 4 it should support 32-bit (it's a x86-cpu!) & 64-bit (I think beginning from the pentium 4 600 series all models support 64-bit)

so you have the choice to go the 32-bit or the 64-bit way

VampyreUK · Post by **VampyreUK** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 6:50 pm

kernelOfTruth wrote:
OK ... it's not an AMD board which is what I think you need to run the 64bit version don't you?
if you don't have too old pentium 4 it should support 32-bit (it's a x86-cpu!) & 64-bit (I think beginning from the pentium 4 600 series all models support 64-bit)

so you have the choice to go the 32-bit or the 64-bit way

It's a good one, not as good as my own machine but a P4/2.8GHz HT Prescott ... it's a perk of working in the industry I suppose, I get to sell old PC bits on eBay and I tend to spend that on my PC's.

I'll try the 64 bit later then.

Kyu

VampyreUK · Post by **VampyreUK** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 8:32 pm

Hi Kernel,

The disk works fine and yes picked up my raid but, although I can create partitions (using "cfdisk /dev/mapper/isw_cbhfacbicf_RAID_Volume1"), I can't seem to format them.

For example where normally I might type "mke2fs /dev/hda1" to format the boot partition my raid drive has a horrendously long name so that I type:

"mke2fs /dev/mapper/i" then press TAB which gives me:

"mke2fs /dev/mapper/isw_cbhfacbicf_RAID_Volume1" and I go to add "p1" (the first partition is /dev/mapper/isw_cbhfacbicf_RAID_Volume1p1) and it doesn't recognise it. If I go ahead and do:

"mke2fs /dev/mapper/isw_cbhfacbicf_RAID_Volume1" it works but wipes all the RAID partitions.

I figured the name in part derives from my BIOS settings and shortened it but it still behaves the same.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Since then I have found that partitioning the disk and restarting seems to make a difference but I am still trying to find out exactly what diff that is.

EDIT #2: And indeed it does ... restarting makes it behave correctly!

Kyu

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